Word: defeat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this is only the beginning of a debate that will probably go on for at least a month. And in the end? Probably from present indications the resolution for adherence will be passed. Thirty-three votes are needed to defeat it. At present it hardly seems that half that number could be summoned by the opposition...
...will be seen on the graph that in 1919, after a long succession of football victories over Yale and Princeton, 40 per cent, of the Senior class at Exeter had elected to come to Harvard. But in that year, the football team met defeat at the hands of Yale and was held to a tie by Princeton; the popularity of the college dropped immediately, so that the next fall, only 22 per cent, of the class came to Harvard, while attendance at Yale rose from 12 to about 27 per cent...
...insurgents also demonstrated their insurgency by voting with the Democrats to defeat, 210 to 194 a motion to consider a change in the rules which they made last year permitting 150 members by petition to discharge a committee of any bill which it is considering. The session then got down to business and gave the tax reduction right of way on its calendar...
...General, as you know, France would have preferred peace in Syria to your victories.† But since the enemy, by plundering and massacring obliges us to defeat them, you will continue to do so until the day when order and security return to the territory which the League of Nations entrusted to us and we can establish the independence and prosperity to which the people of Lebanon and Syria are entitled and which the rebellion alone delays. Peace to those who want peace; war to those who want...
Coach Adolph Samborski '25 has picked his first combination, consisting of G. G. Bailey, captain of his team at Hill School. G. N. Burns, who was highly instrumental in Andover's defeat of last year's Freshmen. B. R. Thackaberry of Rivers. S. J. Jaffe, and K. D. Robinson of Choate. These with two first string substitutes. O'Connell and Filoon, will see action against Tilton...